“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”

— Anne Tyler

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

— Colette

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

— Leo Rosten

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

— Epictetus

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Rooted in freedom, bonded in the fellowship of danger, sharing everywhere a common human blood, we declare again that all men are brothers, and that mutual tolerance is the price of liberty.”<...

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”

— Victor Hugo

“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”

— Wallace Stevens

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was t...

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

— Will Durant

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

— Doris Lessing

“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.”

— Karl Popper

“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”

— Erich Fromm

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”

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